English Explanatory Dictionary

Camm

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Buckingham County, Virginia, United States.

Word forms

Camm

Etymology

* As an English and Norman surname, from Caen in Normandy. * Also as an English surname, named for the Cam river, from the Celtic root of Old Irish camm (“crooked, bent”). This adjective also has surname derivatives from Scottish Gaelic and Welsh. * As a German surname, spelling variant of Kamm.

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